Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1896 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

Keene. Sntterlee & Co.. of Philadelphia, one of the largest exporting and itnporting firms of riieeity. failed. It is said the liabilities will exceed $500,000. A posse of seventy-five prominent Niag ara County, New York, farmers cornered in a farm house and shot to death George IL SYuith, an ex-eon viet. who had before. Williuni -P. Rend. the Chicago coal operator, has admitted that his stateihgnt regarding William Warner, secretary of _■ IT strict N’o.s> ofthc Pittsburg. l*n.. eoal miner's organization, was made on hearsay and Warner has withdrawn his suit for slander. »• Monday was an unlucky day in Wichita, Kan., for seekers after divorce. The district judge of the county made the remarkable record of hearing twenty-one divorce cases inside of four hours. He granted only two out of the entire buneh. He is a new judge, and as his action js regarded as\an established policy, the’ gvorco colonists from all quarter” are picking up their duds preparatory to an exodus <o Oklahoma. A Ixipdon dispatch says: It was learned Monday afternoon that the cabinet council of Saturday last considered the question of re-establishing diplomatic relations with Venezuela, but no definite conclusion was arrived at. The Westminster Gazette, 'touching upon the tnisunderstandjug between Great Britain and the United States, says it sees a distant break in the clouds, and hopes that a settlement satisfactory to Great Britain and the United Stairs will .be effected with .Venezuela di reef, and Intimate's that the Brazilian minister is closely identified with the latest proposed solution of this controversy. •> Prof. Kiehard L. Gamer, who is in Africa trying to demonstrate the Correctness cf his theory that monkeys talk to each other, has written to his son in Baltimore, -Mil, saying that Ju# nH*denhas beenaceomplished.’ His researches have been carried on under the auspices of the African Research Society of Chicago. i At Indianapolis, in the dry goods house of JL S. Ayers & Co.. Miss Ruth Gordon, a clerk, fired two ineffectual shots at Hgiff Purviance, a floor waikeg. Miss Uftrdon charged Purviance with ungentle,•fffnly conduct inward

.1. ■ MartiJus Sievekihg, the young Dutch pianist, who wgs to hay«* made his NewYork debut about the midale of thia month, is missing and now nobody knows where to find him. „ ■ J'! ■v The liabilities of De Neufvill &-Co., brokers, Who recently failed at New York, are placed at $737,006. .The face value Of the assets .is $1,329,995, but the market quotations reduce them to $332,447. As New York, Judge Lacombe granted a mot io h to dismiss tUc suit brought by the Prescott and Arizona Central Railroad against the Atchison. Topeka and--taurta-Fe-Rail road for- $8,250,000 dam—ages. • ; Now it is reported tha|TV. K, Vaiiderbilt wilDfoitow IriKatjfe's example and marry. The ptospeidSwe bride is said to be M iss Amy-Bend. Thedatest rumor regarding 11m TD4hT<mFVah(leflMlt wedding is that it will take place';Jan. 28. In Lynn. Mass.. Mrs. Lamoire. aged 53 years, was burned’to death in her home, nnd Jier, daughlcrinJa w,- Amtie I.amoire. aged 28, was so terribly burned that she is lying at the point of death at the hospital. After the fire was put out the father and soinvere found in a closet connected with the house, naked and almost unconscious from intoxication. Both were considerably burned, but not dangerously so. The pedice say that a lump was upset during some kind of a fracas, and that the inmates of the house were too drunk to put out the fire. Watt Jones, alias Robert Montague, alias Stetson, alias Comstock, a wellknown bank thief, was arrested Monday in New York city. IVTITiam Pinkerton, pt' ■Chicago, says that Jones is not so desperate neri m i nal as some people make him out to be. "He would be more successful if he would leave drink alone, but it always downs him,” said the big detective. "The storyof his forcing a bank cashier in Denver, Cold;, to, sign and then cash a check for SIO,OOO is all bosh.” Jones stole SSOO in silver from John West in the West Hotel, Minneapolis, a few years ago, with “Kid" Harris for a helper. In August, 1879, Jones was with the “Jimmy” Carroll gang that robbed the Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank of Galesburg of $120,000. Carroll was captured by the sheriff, but»the gang waylaid the sheriff at East St. Lotiis, ami after giving him a terrible beating_rcsctied_ <2 a on Oct. ,2. 1891. was arrested with four other well-known bank sneaks for robbing a bank in St. Louis. He had escaped to Kansas City and was arrested theta. He has served seven years in the prison at Kingston, Ont., for a job done in St, Thomas, and he has also been* confined in St. Paul.